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Timothée Chalametsays directorChristopher Nolanjust made him feel much younger than his 30 years.
Chalamet recalled a happy reunion with the director of sci-fi dramaInterstellarat a recent screening of the film that they both attended. He shared the experience during a screening for another of his films,Call Me by Your Name,both part of a career retrospective of the Oscar nominee's work held by American Cinematheque and Cinespia in Los Angeles.
"The whole experience with Nolan, I felt totally like 17 again," Chalamet said at the Feb. 13 event. "I went home, it was shocking ...That was a crazy car ride home for me. I was like, 'Holy sh---, I feel like, you know, the 13 years that elapsed haven't elapsed.'"
Chalamet was still a teenager when he worked with Nolan on the 2014 film. He played Tom, the son ofMatthew McConaughey's Cooper, one of the astronauts sent to identify a new home for humankind.
"We were taking pictures together," Chalamet said of the filmmaker, "and he throws me in a headlock and starts giving me a noogie. I'm like, 'Holy sh---, Chris Nolan's hitting me with a noogie right now.'"
He reminded the Oscar-winning director that he was an adult now. But Nolan was unmoved.
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"I said to him, 'Chris, I'm a 30-year-old man,'" Chalamet shared.
He said Nolan had responded, "Not to me, you're not."
Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with ourEW Dispatch newsletter.The men really bonded over their experience making the movie, which also starred Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Mackenzie Foy, and David Oyelowo. It was awarded an Oscar in the category of Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
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Interstellarwas particularly important to Chalamet, who had yet to star in the films he's best known for today, such asCall Me by Your Name(2017),Little Women(2019),Wonka(2023),A Complete Unknown(2024), and last year'sMarty Surpreme, for which he isnominatedfor his third acting Oscar at the March 15 ceremony.
"Though my role is not enormous inInterstellar— I think I was number 12 on the call sheet — this film came to me at a time in life, in my career, where things were certainly not set yet," Chalamet said at theInterstellarscreening. "And it's remained my favorite project I've ever been in. It's the film I've seen the most of, of all the films ever made in human history."
Next up, Chalamet will star inDune: Part Three, which is scheduled to arrive in theaters Dec. 18.
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